Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Correction: Black Crown Stringband will perform "fiddle driven old-time numbers, twisted up bluegrass standards and plain old straight ahead mountain music at Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys bring their clever name
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: The Roxie has it going on with a double summer comedy feature today, One Crazy Wet Hot American Summer, featuring sleeper classic, Wet Hot American Summer (Michael Ian Black is our fave)
misc July 4th Weekend Palate Cleanser: Chief Gascon's Fireworks PSA SFPD is entering the new millennium with these nifty Public Service Announcement videos from Chief Gascon. The above video urges citizens to stay away from illegal fireworks. Tell that to the infamous dueling
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: This weekend's installment of Peaches Christ's Midnight Mass savors all things Prince, and not to mention Apollonia, with '80s classic, Purple Rain. Singing and dancing in the aisles is encouraged. The event
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend That 3-day weekend is almost here (or are you off today, too?)! All Weekend: The Frozen Film Festival is happening Friday and Saturday night. The month-long LaborFest kicks off this weekend with a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Cooperative art gallery and shared studio, Big Umbrella Studios, presents From The Beginning, featuring work from their newest members: Jessica Patrick, Vanessa Beckrum, Charlie Mirador, Annamarie Pabst, Chance Carstensen, Beja Tinsley, Chad
Arts & Entertainment SFist Giveaway: Tickets to Joe Goode Performance Group's 'Traveling Light' Traveling Light - "It's a nothing time" from Joe Goode Performance Group on Vimeo. Here's a chance to win two tickets to Joe Goode Performance Group's Traveling Light on July 9th at 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Better Weather presents their first exhibition of the summer, featuring an array of "colourfully bright and stunning pieces" by contributing artists, Chrissy Angliker, Erin McCarty, Bill Dunlop, and Jessica Delorme, which will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Elbo Room presents a night of rootsy rock with Buxter Hoot'n, Mark Matos & Os Beaches, and Glenn Labs. 9 p.m. // Elbo Room (647 Valencia St) // $5 COMEDY: Catch Eddie's brother,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: SF native Ali Wong returns to the Bay Area to host What's Crackin' SF?, featuring a long line-up of comedians and two special guests tonight and tomorrow night. 8 p.m. // Punchline
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: California artist Ed Moses is exhibiting Airborne, his series of paintings from 2007 that explores atmosphere and abstraction through lush applications of paint in light, airy hues, "lending an ephemeral quality suggestive
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Revisit Danzig's signature hard rock with its dark punk/goth edge. We imagine not a single person can resist pumping their fists and singing along to classic jam, "Mother". All Shall Perish
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: For one night only at the Dark Room, conceptual artist Spy Emerson presents Happy Forever: The Life and Death of an Italian Cat, based on her experiences as a crewmember of the
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend Pride dominates the weekend, but here are a few additional options. All Weekend: The Frameline Film Festival concludes this weekend, as does the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight COMEDY: Tonight's installment of the monthly Snob Theater, which is organized by Bay Area comedian/music blogger Shawn Robbins, includes comedians Red Scott, Melanie O'Brien, Alex Koll, and DJ Real, and musical guests
misc Overheard @ Grant Ave and Post St A motorcycle cop reprimanding a pulled-over driver upon seeing his I.D., "Always the French. You need to drive better." [Overheard by D.P.]
SF News Clear Channel Forces Firing of Pride Staple, DJ St. John, Others Thanks, tipster, for the info on the sudden firing of long-time Pride DJ, St. John, and two other well known gay morning DJs, who are apparently unnamed at the moment. Lez Get Real
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Creativity Explored's latest exhibition, Spectrum, explores psychedelic art, ranging from op-art paintings and obsessive drawings to historical references to the cultural revolution of the '60s and '70s, and responds to the current
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BURLESQUE: In Have Tassels Will Travel, Satans Angel will share stories, slides, and costumes from her times performing at San Francisco's Condor Club, the Las Vegas Strip, Paris' Folies Bergéré, and Bob Hope's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: In The Sisters (Die Schwestern), which is screening tonight at Frameline, German filmmakers explore the global factions of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Berlin, Montevideo in Uruguay, and San Francisco, and
Arts & Entertainment Be Part of the "Slash Oil" Formation at Ocean Beach on Saturday Brad Newsham, writer, cab driver, and organizer of the "Impeach" message at Ocean Beach from a few years back, is organizing a "Slash Oil" event that will take place on Saturday at 10
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SCIENCE: As part of the Down to Science series, Thomas Goetz, Executive Editor of Wired, presents The Decision Tree: Gameshow Version!, in which participants will learn about "emerging tools to track and combine
misc What Parts Make Up the Tenderloin? Tenderblog has a poll going about what exactly makes up the Tenderloin and questions whether the TenderNob actually exists. Also, is Civic Center part of the Tenderloin or not? We think Maps #3
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: As part of the Frameline Film Festival, Bear Nation shares the stories of bears' "second coming out:" finding other big, hairy guys, and explores the transformation of the bear movement into a
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Rogue Wave's "Solitary Gun," Starring BART Rogue Wave - Solitary Gun from Rogue Wave on Vimeo. Bay Area, and beyond, fav, Rogue Wave, have a stunning video out for their new song, "Solitary Gun," off of their recent release,
